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- adjective Relating to
organisms that havesporadic and random intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired
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Examples
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Next, they took the same measurements in 164 living birds and lizards that are night-active (nocturnal), day-active (diurnal), day- and night-active (cathemeral) or twilight-active (crepuscular).
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